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“The Grateful Dead Movie” — How It Was Made & Background

August 9th, 2025 · 9 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies, Music

. The Jerry Garcia-directed film “The Grateful Dead Movie” will be back in theaters for one night (Thurs Aug 14th) — and for *the first time* it’s been remastered in 4K for IMAX and remixed for their high-end surround-sound speakers.  (!) Revisiting the film, here’s some deets you may not know … or knew and […]

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17th Anniversary of Producing a Story a Month for BrianHassett.com

February 8th, 2025 · 7 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me

On this weekend 17 years ago — in the heat of the Democratic primary of 2008 between Hillary & Obama — I started BrianHassett.com. Every month since then for 17 years I’ve written at least one new piece for the site. “17” has been a weird number that’s followed me around my whole life from […]

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Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review

June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales

. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas   photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built.  It sounded too wild to be true!  And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]

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